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Forum III 1)What types of departmentalization are being used? Explain your choices. Starbucks is known across the world, they have to deal with different cultures and work ethics. This is where the international operations is greatly needed, having this you know that when you walk in to Starbucks anywhere it will be the same. This is made possible with the use of departmentalization. The two that I found where geographical and functional. Geographical- With geographical departmentalization, this allows the company to deal with the "obese" size of the company. By having this in place this has given them presidents in Canada (President of Starbucks Canada), USA (President of Starbucks Coffee USA) and Internationally with the President of Starbucks coffee international and senior vice-president of coffee and global procurement. Functional- With this they can assign different jobs for to insure that everything that takes place is done to pure perfection. 3)What examples of the six organizational structural elements do you see discussed in the case? Describe. Departmentalization- As said in question 1, this helps the company decide which jobs and operations should be put together to work on. Ex. Audit and compliance. Decentralization- This is what makes Starbucks so successful. They try and get advice from all levels of employment and give the freedom to make there own decisions within the Starbucks rules. Span of Control- Having district managers visit 8-10 stores and having the right number of employees a manager can handle to be the most productive. Formalization- Starbucks does a great job with formalizing their jobs. Through training it…...

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...they usually can not clean the tables and it creates a mass in the shop and it doesn’t seem so nice. In the end it is not all about selling while they increase the profits they also should give importance safety and hygiene requirements.
* Do you have any memorable moments?
Yes I do. Once one of my job interview has been made in Maslak Starbucks. Human resources told me that the owner of the company wants to meet me but he doesn’t have enough time. So they offered me meeting him and doing my interview during his lunch at Starbucks. I went there and I was very relieved that our meeting was there. You know having coffee at a relaxing place made me feel comfortable and I took the job thanks to Starbukcs as well!
* You mentioned Starbacks like relaxing shop what else in atmosphere and design are you pay attention on?
You should feel peaceful and relaxing. So everything in design and atmosphere should give you that feeling.
SEZEN KURTARICI (32, MARRIED)
* Do you work part time or full time?
I work full time at a pharmaceutical company.
* Can you please give us your approximate monthly income?
I earn 4000 something per month.
* How often do you drink coffee?
I at least drink one cup of coffee every day.
* Which hours during the day you prefer to drink coffee?
I prepare my own coffee at home for breakfast usually with coffee beans which I buy from coffee stores. If I don’t have time I surely go to Caffe Nero which is very close......

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$103,000
a. Why must noncash expenses such as depreciation be added
to net income in computing the cash provided by operations?
b. If Moret Company had reported depreciation expense of
$62,000 rather than $42,000, what impact would this
change have on cash provided by operations for the year?
Which of the above totals would change? By what
amounts?
c. In what way does an increase in accounts payable represent a cash savings?
d. Why is the computation used above in determining
Moret’s cash provided by operations described as the indirect method?
E13-3 Investing Cash Flows Rigor Company reported
the following net cash ﬂow from investing activities in its
cash ﬂow statement:
Sale of equipment
Sale of land
Purchase of Starback Corporation bonds
Cash used in investing activities
$(040,000
160,000
(350,000)
$(150,000)
a. If Rigor Company is expanding, would the cash ﬂows
from investing activities be expected to be positive or negative? Explain why.
b. Does Rigor Company appear to be expanding or contracting its operations? How do you know?
c. Is it possible to determine if a gain or loss was recorded
on the sale of equipment by looking at the cash ﬂow statement? Where would this amount be disclosed?
d. Does the $40,000 reported from the sale of equipment represent the cash received or the carrying value of the equipment at the time of sale?
Understanding Accounting Information
e. In light of Rigor’s cash ﬂows from investing......